What follows is a complete list of Emmy Award wins
and nominations for Cagney & Lacey, Golden Globe
information, and a quote from a book about the show's
1985 Emmy wins.

Emmy Award Wins and Nominations

1983 (Presented 9/25/83)

Tyne Daly won in the Best Actress - Drama Series category.

Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig, Supervising Producers Richard M. Rosenbloom, Harry R. Sherman, producers April Kelly, Joseph Stern, Terry Louise Fisher and Steve Brown were nominated in the Best Drama Series category. Sharon Gless was nominated for Best Actress, Maury Harris, John Ashman, William Nicholson and Ken S. Polk, C.A.S. were nominated for Best Film Sound Mixing for the "Recreational Use" episode.

1984 (Presented 9/23/84)

Tyne Daly won in the Best Actress - Drama Series category.

Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig and producer Peter Lefcourt were nominated in the Best Drama Series category. Sharon Gless was nominated for Best Actress. Millie Moore, A.C.E. was nominated for Best Film Editing - Series for the "Choices" episode and Geofrrey Rowland, A.C.E. was nominated for Best Film Editing - Series for the "The Baby Broker" episode. Maury Harris, John Ashman, William Nicholson and Ken S. Polk, C.A.S. were nominated for Best Film Sound Mixing for the "Bounty Hunter" episode.

1985(Presented 9/22/85)*

Tyne Daly won in the Best Actress - Drama Series category. Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig and producers Steve Brown, Terry Louise Fisher and Peter Lefcourt won in the Best Drama Series category. Karen Arthur won in the Best Director - Drama Series category for the "Heat" episode. Patricia Green won in the Best Writing - Drama Series category for Part II of the "Who Said It's Fair" episode. Jim Gross won in the Best Film Editing -Series category for Part II of the "Who Said It's Fair" episode. Maury Harris, John Ashman, William Nicholson and Ken S. Polk, C.A.S. won in the Best Film Sound Mixing category for the "Heat" episode.

Sharon Gless was nominated in the Best Actress - Drama Series category. Deborah Arakelian was nominated in the Best Writing - Drama Series episode for the "Child Witness" episode. Nan Schwartz was nominated in the Music Composition - Series (Dramatic Underscore) category for the "Organized Crime" episode.

1986 (Presented 9/20/86)

Sharon Gless won in the Best Actress - Drama Series category. Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig, Supervising Producer Liz Cole, producers Ralph Singleton, Patricia Green Steve Brown and co-producer P.K. Knelman won in the Best Drama Series category. John Karlen won in the Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series category. Georg Sanford Brown won in the Best Director - Drama Series category for the "Parting Shots" episode.

Tyne Daly was nominated in the Best Actress - Drama Series category. Peggy McCay was nominated in the Best Guest Performer - Drama Series category for the "Mothers and Sons" episode. James Stacy was nominated in the Best Guest Performer - Drama Series category for the "Gimp" episode.

1987 (Presented 9/20/87)

Sharon Gless won in the Best Actress - Drama Series category.

Tyne Daly was nominated in the Best Actress - Drama Series category. Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig, Supervising Producers Jonathan Estrin, Shelley List, producers Ralph Singleton, Georgia Jeffries and co-producer P.K. Knelman were nominated in the Best Drama Series category. John Karlen was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series category. Sharon Miller was nominated in the Best Director - Drama Series for Part II of the "Turn, Turn, Turn" episode. Georgia Jeffries was nominated in the Best Writing - Drama Series episode for Part I of the "Turn, Turn, Turn" episode. Jeanene Ambler was nominated in the Best Editing -Series (Single Camera Production) for Part I of the "Turn, Turn, Turn" episode.

1988 (Presented 8/28/88)

Tyne Daly won in the Best Actress - Drama Series category.

Sharon Gless was nominated in the Best Actress - Drama Series category.

Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless were nominated in the Best Actress (Drama Series) category. Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig and producer Peter Lefcourt were nominated in the Best Drama Series category.

Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless were nominated in the Best Actress (Drama Series) category. Executive Producer Barney Rosenzweig and producers Steve Brown, Terry Louise Fisher and Peter Lefcourt were nominated in the Best Drama Series category.

Sharon Gless was nominated in the Best Actress (Drama Series) category.

*1985 Emmy Story

From page 327 of Thomas O'Neil's book, The Emmys, 3rd Edition (1992):

Media pundits predicted "A Cop Show Shoot-Out" at this year's [1985] showdown, but few forecast correctly who'd be left standing when the smoke cleared.

Hill Street Blues was aiming to be the top drama for a fifth year in a row, thereby setting a [then] new record for most wins as best series. Starting out with 11 nominations, it also had a shot at surpassing The Mary Tyler Moore Show's record for the most Emmys overall (29) if it bagged just 5 more awards. Based on its past success, the incumbent champ may have been considered the front-runner, but, when the noms came out, Variety insisted, "Miami Vice has replaced Hill Street Blues in the hearts of the TV academy membership." The megahit, fashion-savvy detective series with a catchy rock and roll score led all series with the most bids: 15.

"Yes, it will be Hill Street Blues vs. Miami Vice as the main attraction," the L.A. Times said in sizing up this year's showdown.

Variety reported later, however: "Not all of the night went off according to plan."

Both shows were also up against Cagney & Lacey, the police drama about two female officers that was "twice bounced off CBS because of poor ratings, only to bounce right back and become a winner," said Variety.

On Emmy night Cagney & Lacey nabbed six honors in all: for best drama series, directing, writing, film editing, film sound mixing and, for a third year in a row, best actress Tyne Daly. "I'm the luckiest lady alive," said the pregnant Daly, one week overdue. When accepting the series award, producer Terry Louise Fisher referred to the producers of the other nominated series and said, "I'm the only one on the list without a Y chromosome. Ladies, we did it! It's our year!"